Two folks, together with a Louisiana State College ladies’s pole vaulter, died in a car crash on the varsity’s Baton Rouge campus Wednesday night time, in response to faculty officers.
At roughly 9:07 p.m. on Wednesday, the motive force of a Honda Accord was touring southbound on Nicholas Drive and tried to make a left activate South Quad Drive, the Baton Rouge Police Division mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
When making an attempt to make the left flip, the “Honda Accord was struck by the motive force of a BMW bike that was touring northbound on Nicholson Drive.”
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, a freshman pole vaulter, was killed in a automotive crash on the LSU campus on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.
Reagan Cotten/Courtesy of LSU Athletics
The driving force of the automotive and the motorcyclist, 23-year-old Bohdi Linton, each died on the scene of the accident, police mentioned.
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, was recognized as the motive force of the automotive, LSU Athletics mentioned in a statement on Thursday.
“We’re devastated by the tragic passing of Dillon Reidenauer, who was taken from us a lot too quickly,” LSU monitor and discipline coach Dennis Shaver mentioned. “Everybody in our LSU Monitor & Discipline household is preserving Dillon’s family members in our ideas and prayers, in addition to these of the opposite particular person misplaced within the incident.”
Reidenauer was a freshman at LSU, pursuing a level in inside design and was part of the ladies’s pole vault group, the faculty mentioned.
Initially from Abita Springs, Louisiana, Reidenauer was one of many high prep pole vaulters within the state whereas attending Fontainebleau Excessive Faculty. She completed second on the 2024 LHSAA 5A Championships and positioned fourth at that very same meet as a junior.
Dillon Reidenauer, 18, a freshman pole vaulter at Louisiana State College, was killed Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in a automotive crash on campus.
Bransen Phillips/Courtesy of LSU Athletics
Her bio on LSU’s athletics web page describes Reidenauer as “probably the greatest pole vaulters within the state of Louisiana popping out of highschool.”
LSU is among the high pole vaulting packages within the nation, thanks partially to alum Mondo Duplantis, who holds the world document within the occasion and received gold on the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. Reidenauer, as a freshman, was not but competing, however was studying below the group’s high pole vaulter, senior Johanna Duplantis, the youthful sister of the acknowledged biggest pole vaulter of all time.
Shaver mentioned the group is at the moment on the street at Faculty Station, Texas, for the SEC Championships and “thanks Texas A&M for providing their assist and compassion.”
LSU Athletics mentioned they’re “offering sources and assist to all of our student-athletes and workers straight impacted by this tragic loss.”
